Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-10-13

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In Julius Cpsar'' not an ideal
ancient Rome, hut the real one is nc.
curately portrayed.
In the Italian plays, THE Mer.
chant of Venice,n Tanning of the
Sbrew' and 1.-TWO Gentlemen of Yer
ona,' intimate acquaintance IN small
details il shown with the Italian
towns and manners of the people,
The COMEDY of Errors Is discov-
cred In these latter days to be identi-
cal II the argument with the Men
echmi' of Plautus, then hardly
known aud untrsnslated.
lagos speech. ''who steals my purse
steals trash" Is u perfect psraphrase
Of stanza In Berni's untranslated
poem, Orlando Innamorsto."
In Two Gentlemen Of Verona
Valentine Is made to embark at Yer
ona tor Milan, and in Hamlet" Bap-
tista IL used a. the name Of a woman.
In another play b 'hemis Ia referred
TO ss having q seacoast. These things
where sneered AT ~ mistakes for some
hundred years. until Que learned Ger
ma discovers that Baptisla Is not I'M
commonly used rs n wOnan's name
in Italy, another learned German that
in the sixteenth century Milan and
Verona were connected by canals,
whilst q third has discovered tnal
aBohemia" formerly included n much
larger tract of country than it does
now, and did stretch down TO thl
coast.
The above are a few, out of many
Instances.
What inducemeut could Shakespeare
the manager OF the Globe aud Black.
frairs Theatre, have had to Introduce
carefully STUDIED details aud dark and
subtle allusious such MS these? Ii
Was not this out OF the way kuOwl-
edge and learning in the Plays that
would draw, Tor very few OF thUse WHO
attended the representations could
perceive or appreciate II.
Ii must nave been introduced for
The satisfaction OF the writer VI the
Plays, who must nave been no novice,
but n learned aud cultivated mau who
Wac imbu.d and eoull play with his
knowledge. He must have had
access TO the best Libraries OF the day
He must have been IA deep reader and
thinker, u man whose mind IA not
only well stored bu, teemiug and
nuling over with knowledge. Even
ifthrre were no peIsun 10 whom these
wonderful plays could he fifty attriEu-
ted he in ereuce would have 5etn The
same; there must have been some
very clever and erudite / in the
background who wrote them.
And what II there unlikely in the
notion that Shakespeare, the busy aud
II, cassfui theatrical manager, a we'll
TODD, prosperous, busting mran,
-hruld have kept "playwriter-' Whose
brains lac Used tu write his Ilays.
Shak-i ere's taste lay in Bringing out
of plays aud management OF the stage
business. This work of selection Of
the plays ANA Ufthe actors, the choice
OF The caste anu the rehersais IL
nowadays II mans work, especially
IN bringing out plays oI such length
as shakespeare Tins must have
been much mere the case luree hun.
hltu Ntuis hEh, WITH lnt buSllSNe was
IUt ~ well understood ANA actUrs were
NOE 50 educated aud Ia eliigrnl n class
~ now. SuakspeTe's Uhie [, which he
attained, was Ia make his theatre pay
anu make money, get II coat of ann,
buy land and retire 10 his native
place. Play writing Wa n laboIiou,,
moi Il pay Ing business. -Four or five
pounds We, the stock mire, il Il he.
lieyed, OF Il play Ia thuse day. Shak'
sprre would not have grown rich Ia,
he did, II ie had employed his lahor-
and en- rgirs first IA acquiring the
Earning aud ID .TTy skill uecc stry Ia
wife th" ppy-; and, srrunuty, IN
wrIlpg them. His contemporaries,
ian ir.0u and Bacon. both literary
uD"u "A! .Hr AZ, Urd r. were pppr meu
.nt ihc greater Urr uf their lIvr-,
Wa'I-' S~rnk-nu, thu atIur mi ths
trl UlnuBg'r, grew Tu.h, nud lrnl Ben
JON. Or nIuu,y.
NJ .ir-h her 80 hing ~uur"a-nn.
shc iY lhr theory 'l,'t -uuu Hbue man
Uj uHr .up kgruuui wflrr toe PIhy-,
-uuuuIr vino had good rr4-Du fI
k'Cf ing nls uaiur unknown, aud wht
Wa ..II.tiyd tu u-a ~ hIs cover ~iiuk-
i"rr, the Il0ru.ar thcatpr manager ol
ipp Hay. who ut all events for til,
line, Wa % hc allowed the credit @